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CodeGPT
✓ verifiedFreemium

IDE coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains that uses your own API keys across 15+ model providers, with agentic mode and autocomplete.

262K visits/mo
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Cody
✓ verifiedPaid

Enterprise AI coding assistant that pulls context from an entire codebase to power chat, code edits and debugging.

245K visits/mo
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Aider
✓ verifiedFree

Open-source terminal AI pair programmer that edits code in your local git repo and auto-commits, working with most LLMs.

479K visits/mo
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Continue
✓ verifiedFreemium

Open-source AI coding assistant offering autocomplete and chat in IDEs; the company was acquired by Cursor.

775K visits/mo
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Windsurf Editor
✓ verifiedFree trial

AI-powered code editor with agentic workflows for developers.

3.3M visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0/mo (BYOK, 30 free interactions)
AutoComplete Add-on / BYOK Pro: $8/mo per seat ($6.67 annual)
Enterprise: starting at $16K (includes AI feature credits, scales with team size)

No public pricing

No public pricing

No public pricing

Core features
  • BYOK access to 15+ model providers
  • Agentic planning-then-build mode
  • AI autocomplete
  • MCP connections to external systems
  • Custom rules and live context tracking
  • Local models via Ollama/LM Studio
  • VS Code and JetBrains plugins
  • Codebase-aware developer chat
  • AI code completions and inline edits
  • Customizable and shareable prompts
  • Automatic bug identification and debugging help
  • Context filters to exclude sensitive repos
  • Integrates with major code hosts and IDEs
  • Terminal-based AI pair programming
  • Edits code in your local git repo
  • Automatic git commits with messages
  • Codebase mapping for large projects
  • Works with cloud and local LLMs
  • Voice-to-code, image/web context, lint and test
  • Open-source AI code assistant
  • Customizable autocomplete
  • In-editor AI chat
  • Community-built coding agent
  • AI-powered code completion and suggestions
  • Automated lint fixing
  • Cascade agent for advanced coding assistance
  • Integrated app building and deployment
  • MCP server support for custom tools
  • Terminal command integration
  • Memory of codebase structure and workflow
Use cases
  • Code generation, refactoring and debugging
  • Control AI spend with your own keys
  • Switch between frontier models per task
  • Keep code private and data-sovereign
  • Engineers asking questions about an unfamiliar large codebase
  • Teams standardizing common coding tasks with shared prompts
  • Developers debugging errors faster with AI-assisted context
  • Enterprises running large-scale code migrations
  • Building features and fixing bugs via AI in the terminal
  • Working on large existing codebases
  • Automating git commits
  • Using local LLMs for private coding
  • Get AI code completions while coding
  • Ask questions about code in the editor
  • Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
  • Accelerating software development by automating repetitive tasks
  • Reducing onboarding time for new developers
  • Improving code quality and reducing tech debt
  • Streamlining the app building and deployment process
  • Enhancing developer productivity by keeping them in a state of flow
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